American Is Cleared After Woman Is Shoved Into Path of London Bus

Jogger Pushes Pedestrian in Front of Bus

A surveillance camera video released by the police shows the moment a male jogger shoved a woman into the path of an oncoming bus on a bridge.

By Courtesy of METROPOLITAN POLICE LONDON on Publish Date August 10, 2017.
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LONDON — A man who was arrested after a woman was shoved into the path of a London bus has been released and eliminated as a suspect in the incident, the police said on Saturday.

The man, Eric Bellquist, a 41-year-old American investment banker, was taken into custody on Thursday on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after the police published a video of the violent encounter. The authorities asked the public to help identify the jogger, who was filmed shoving the woman in front of a bus on Putney Bridge. The woman suffered minor injuries.

Mr. Bellquist denied being the man in the video, and his lawyers released a statement saying that their client had been wrongly implicated and that there was “irrefutable proof” that he was in the United States during the time of the incident, which took place on May 5.

1/3 Eric Bellquist, who was arrested yesterday in relation to an assault that took place on #PutneyBridge has been wrongly implicated

“The victim was put in extreme danger when she was knocked into the road,” Sgt. Mat Knowles, the investigating officer from the Putney Safer Neighborhood Team, said in a statement. “It was only due to the superb quick reactions of the bus driver that she was not hit by the vehicle.”